A new Budget: and more reasons to car-share
22/04/2009

Chancellor Alistair Darling gave the most important budget in over 60 years today - and the hearts of motorists around the UK will have sunk as he announced a fuel duty increase by 2p per litre in September, followed by 1p a litre above indexation each April for the next four years.

But every cloud has a silver lining and Liftshare hopes this will provide the impetus for many more car drivers to investigate the benefits of car-sharing.

"It is a great shame that the Government needs to increase fuel costs in order to compensate for its own mistakes," said Liftshare's founder Ali Clabburn. "However, last year's petrol crisis did demonstrate that escalating prices at the pumps do lead to a change in behaviour among motorists.

"In June last year, Liftshare's membership rate increased by 100% as fuel prices went up. Thousands of motorists actually managed to reduce their travel costs by car-sharing - even though fuel prices were spiraling - and as a result reduced congestion and pollution. We expect this price increase to reduce emissions from cars and therefore support it."

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